Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting of broom; bearing broom: as, a “broomy peak,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered in the shrub
broom . - adjective Of or pertaining to a
broom ,bushy .
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Examples
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My littlest boy found a broomy kind of branch and most of the way back, swept the path.
Celebration Angcat 2007
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My littlest boy found a broomy kind of branch and most of the way back, swept the path.
Archive 2007-10-01 Belinda 2007
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It gave him a surprised look — not to say a hearth – broomy kind of expression — which, my apprehensions whispered, might be fatal to us.
David Copperfield 2007
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Night fell as we came to the broomy spaces of the links, and ere we had breasted the slope of the neck which separates Kirkcaple Bay from the cliffs it was as dark as an April evening with a full moon can be.
Prester John 2005
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And o'er the broomy braes like a fairy would flee,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Outward appearances are often very deceiving; but, when one cuts the top off a seedling and attempts to graft it, he may be amazed at the broomy growth that soon appears from the stock, should his graft fail to take.
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I do not have any Persian trees with the typical broomy bunch, as is so often seen in the Japanese walnut, and its hybrids.
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This form has some broomy, upright growth, like the first, but it is never bunched.
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It gave him a surprised look - not to say a hearth-broomy kind of expression - which, my apprehensions whispered, might be fatal to us.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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Night fell as we came to the broomy spaces of the links, and ere we had breasted the slope of the neck which separates Kirkcaple Bay from the cliffs it was as dark as an April evening with a full moon can be.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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